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Abraham Benjamin "AB" de Villiers (born 17 February 1984) is a South African cricketer, who captains the South African One Day International (ODI) team, having succeeded Graeme Smith after the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Widely regarded as the current best batsman in the world and one of the greatest of all time,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='De Villiers the No. 1 batsman across formats' )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AB de Villiers the best cricket batsman in world across all three formats, writes Michael Hussey )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='AB de Villiers' record ODI hundred off 31 balls could make him the best batsman of all time' )〕 De Villiers dominated the top of the ICC Test batting rankings in 2014, along with Kumar Sangakkara. As of November 2015, he is ranked first in the ICC ODI and Test batting rankings . The son of Dr. Abraham Benjamin de Villiers, he attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a public school located in Pretoria. De Villiers is a right-handed batsman, who, in a very short space of time, has accumulated many runs in Tests including 21 centuries and 36 fifties. He still holds the record for most Test innings without registering a duck (78),〔(Players Batting 30 Innings before First Duck ) Retrieved on 27 November 2008〕 before being dismissed for nought against Bangladesh in November 2008. He also holds the second-highest individual score by a South African batsman in an innings, with 278 *. Until 2012, he was an occasional wicket-keeper for South Africa, although since the retirement of regular Test keeper Mark Boucher and under his own ODI captaincy he has started to regularly keep wicket for the national side in Tests, ODIs and T20Is, but then decided to give up wicketkeeping after the debut of Quinton de Kock, and started becoming a part-time bowler.He was one of South Africa's part-time bowlers along with JP Duminy and Farhaan Behardien to fill the quota of the 5th Bowler in 2015 Cricket World Cup. He has records of fastest 50 (16 balls), 100 (31 balls) and 150 (64 balls) in One Day Internationals by any batsmen in history, the fastest hundred by a South African in Tests and the fastest 50 by South African in T20s. ==Education== AB de Villiers attended Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys, also known as Affies), a public school located in Pretoria. He attended alongside Jacques Rudolph, Heino Kuhn and Francois du Plessis, fellow Titans and South African international cricketers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AB de Villiers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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